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Lizix is attested as a first name in the VIIIth c. (Laurent, Corpus II, no. 691) and as a family name in the XIth-XIIth (S. G. Mercati, “Versi di Basilio Cecaumeno in morte di Anastasio Lizix,” SBN 1 [1925] 149-166; cf. P. Gautier, “Monodies inédites de Michel Psellos,” REB 36 [1978] 86-91). A Michael Lizix is attested in the twelfth century, while Psellos a century earlier mentions an Anastasios Lizix and another one whose first name is not known and who must have been an asekretis, since Psellos dictated a pittakion to him (Sathas, MB V, 241). No secure identification is possible.